THE DEVELOPMENT OF REALIA MEDIA-BASED LEARNING MODEL FOR TEACHING A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Abstract
This research is aimed at developing realia as a media that can be used for teaching writing descriptive text. This study is developmental research that uses Dick & Carry"s model. The instrument employed in this study is a test (Pre-test and Post-test). The study takes place in STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh to the studens of forth semester, academic year 2015/2016. The samples are 25 students which is given a miniature of handphone as realia. Pre-test and Post-test were administrated to measure students" ability in writing descriptive text before and after using realia. The scoring system was based on five aspects; they are content, organization, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics. The finding of the study shows the result of pre-test 63,91 up to 83.69 in post-test. It means the final product of this realia media is effective to improve students" writing ability. The result shows that there is an increase of students" ability in writing descriptive text by using realia as a media. Therefore, the writer suggest to English teacher to develop realia as one of the alternative ways to increase the students" descriptive text writing ability.
Keywords
realia, writing, descriptive text